The Man in the Black Suit: 4 Dark Tales By Stephen King Ana Juan John Cullum Becky Ann Baker Íñigo Jáuregui Peter Gerety Arliss Howard THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT FOUR UNABRIDGED DARK TALES FROM STEPHEN KINGThe Man in the Black Suit read by John Cullum e face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said I don t want to think of him, but I can t help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clTHE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT FOUR UNABRIDGED DARK TALES FROM STEPHEN KINGThe Man in the Black Suit read by John Cullum e face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said I don t want to think of him, but I can t help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest A haunting recollection of a mysterious boyhood event, The Man in Black Suit read by John Cullum leads off this masterful collection from Stephen King Other dark tales include All That You Love Will Be Carried Away read by Peter Gerety, in which a man checks into a Lincoln, Nebraska Motel 6 to find the meaning in his life That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French read by Becky Ann Baker presents the ultimate case of d ej a vu and The Death of Jack Hamilton read by Arliss Howard a blistering tale of Depression era outlaws on the run Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, Stephen King s The Man In The Black Suit Four Dark Tales is intense, eerie and instantly compelling.

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father s family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support After Stephen s grandparents passed away, Mrs King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966 From his sopho year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate He came to support the anti war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional He graduated in 1970, with a B.A in English and qualified to teach on the high school level A draft board examination immediately post graduation found him 4 F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students they married in January of 1971 As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men s magazines.Stephen made his first professional short story sale The Glass Floor to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967 Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men s magazines Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

One of King s best short stories The voice and setting work together beautifully It is both a visit to a favorite fishing hole on a perfect summer afternoon and the most terrifying experience in a young boy s life John Cullum s reading is great too

This is a solid collection, but the title story is by far the best Impressively narrated by John Cullum, THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT is as fine a short story as you can hope to listen to Wonderfully nostalgic, but also very chilling, I have listened to it many times Great cover art too

This is my first foray into Stephen King it was quite good but I got confused a bit at The last story It s quite awesome though how he can have really distinctive voices for each character These art that scary or creepy but still good They are really suspenseful I would say and psychological

I ve read each of these four stories in other places, so they weren t new to me, which is why I audio ed them I liked the way each story had it s own CD, despite their varying lengths They each a different reader as well, so this felt a bit like a book buffet.The Man In The Black Suit This was not one of my favorites by King It felt as if someone else actually wrote it I had no problem with the idea itself, and actually found it believable ending the way it did than if he had ended it as expect [...]

I found this collection of short stories to be quite slow.The first is probably the longest and I listened to about half of it I just couldn t get into it After that I went to the last story, which was about marriage problems told from the point of view of the wife I again listened to about half of this before losing interest.After that I went to the third story, The Death of Jack Hamilton This is told from the perspective of a Dillinger Gang member in the 30s I got than halfway through this on [...]

Overall Average 4.5 5 stars What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white I pray for that sort of release Technically, this is a re read, because I ve read these four tales previously, in the other anthologies they were a part of But I love short fiction, especially by King, and this was just the thing to fill some after Christmas empty time These four tales are creepy and fun, and if you are looking for an entertaining [...]

All 4 of these were great short chillers The last 1 really got me b c it hit on some deep seeded Catholic teachings about purgatory which tends to twist my gut which is what made it so incredible b c it really got to me.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly Stephen King The man in the black suit is built up by practical themes and questions about human condition, which makes it than a horror story The story is full of mystery, evil, concerns for the future and the sad weakness of old age are the major things of this story The narrator memories from youth are still trapped in his body that just by remembering, he gets chills from it The Man in the Black Suit fits a genre whose major aim [...]

This short horror story, The Man in the Black Suit, by Stephen King is a kind of stories that are written so detailed, creating vivid images in readers mind as if they are watching a movie Stephen King s use of the first person narrative makes Gary s validity doubtful at some parts of the story Spoiler Alert Gary s father did not believe him after Gary told him what had happened because Gary used to have bad dreams His father asked him if he fell asleep and if the man in the black suit was in hi [...]

The concept of fear is a tough topic to write about But, it is a topic that The Man In The Black Suit covers well There s the underlying fear that his parents have when they send Gary off to fish How his father makes him promise that he won t go any further than where the river forks The fear that Gary portrays when he wets his pants when face to face with the devil Panic is one of the emotions that we, as humans, tend to confuse or interchange with fear But, panic is an emotion all its own Pani [...]